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U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africa
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoTAKORADI, Ghana — In the shadow of the 9/11 attacks, the United States rushed troops and military...
How a Kansas soldier ‘liberated’ Hitler’s personal stationery
WJZY via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoS. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. “When I first got to France, they took me to a large tent full of...
‘The first wave went through hell:’ The 16th Infantry Regiment’s role in victory on D-Day
South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAmong the many Allied military units storming the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, was the 16th...
As D-Day commemorations conclude in France, Biden turns his gaze to Ukraine and Gaza wars
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoS. approved in late April, roughly half of which is allocated to military equipment and nearly $8 billion of which was set aside to pay for essential government services.
On 80th anniversary of D-Day, a Colorado WWII veteran reflects: “They knew they had to win at all...
Denver Post· 1 day agoNearly 70 years passed before Indergand received the Bronze Star and oak leaf cluster he was...
A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHoward I. Moorefield of North Carolina was handed a piece of paper...sign, fold and save his copy....
80 Years On: D-Day Diary Tells Heroic Story
AARP· 1 day agoOn June 6, 1944, Anthony Sirco was a gunner’s mate on board the USS Arkansas — the oldest ship in the U.S. Navy and known as “Arky” — which shelled Omaha...
D-Day 80th anniversary: Survivors, leaders meet in Normandy
WFTV 9 Orlando· 1 day agoThe surviving veterans of D-Day, most in wheelchairs, were again in Normandy on Thursday, as they...
‘It feels very lonely’: 80 years after D-Day, only 2 USS Nevada crew members remain
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 1 day agoBuilt just before World War I, the USS Nevada was the only battleship to have fought on D-Day and...
T.D. Allman, assertive globe-trotting journalist, dies at 79 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 4 hours ago“At the end of the paved runway were three Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopters,” Allman reported....